Management

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There are four types of management ingame. Manage a village, rule a town, lead a colony or prevail over an entire kingdom. Each center has a different style of management. Assign farmers, woodcutters as village owner, construct buildings in the style of Medieval II and recruit troops in towns, place colony buildings manually with keyboard keys or invest in technology to gain access to 16th century troops. Village management is considered the easiest, kingdom management the hardest. If you start a colony you'll need to deal with both kingdom and colony management. This is not adviced. I recommend to start as village owner, then try your hands at town management and then finally try to rule over a kingdom for maximal gameplay. Note that if you choose a royal title as king, you'll also choose a culture.

In these new lands, no longer the laws of the Old World apply, no longer the kings have a strong grip on the people. Be prepared for war and nasty attacks from the uncivilized nearby native populations! Levy some strong men from your party to strengthen the local garrison and build defenses to make sieges last longer so you have time to come and fight.